Flotsam Crab

Planes minutus

• Group: Crab

This little crab never settles on the seafloor. It rafts on floating debris and on the backs of sea turtles, clinging to the open ocean surface and travelling wherever the currents carry its drifting home.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Arthropoda › Malacostraca › Decapoda › Grapsidae › Planes

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 107462.